identify, sort, and order main ideas and supporting details for writing tasks, using a variety of strategies and organizational patterns suited to the content and the purpose for writing (e.g., use a clear statement of their topic or thesis to highlight the main points they plan to cover in a persuasive magazine article; identify appropriate classification categories and use them to itemize the characteristics of a protagonist in a story or play; use a cause-and-effect chart to organize an argument for an essay; develop an extended metaphor as a prompt for writing a poem; use a web diagram to show how quotations from a text support their argument in an opinion piece; classify images from song lyrics for a music review; use a timeline to trace the development of a tragic hero for an in-class essay)